silver

My get-pushed challenge from Miss Mercy (@missmercy) this week was to tempt her with shiny pretty things - "jewellery, crystal and copper and their beautiful sparkles and reflections" because she loves looking at, and collecting these objects.

This pseudo-ebay style shot shows the hallmarks on my Great-grandmother's locket, indicating the:
Country of assay and standard of quality - the lion passant lower left (.925 British silver)
Town of the Maker's mark - anchor (Birmingham)
Year of manufacture - 1898 (using the Birmingham year chart to match the letter "y" in the correct font)
Maker - J.C. (possibly John Clifton or Joseph Carnell, although more study would be needed)

You can identify hallmarks at http://www.925-1000.com/british_marks.html

[☠northy]

nicely shot! i always find these sorts of things quite difficult to get the lighting right...

[Ruth Moucharafieh]

Beautifully shot, you have got the lighting just right which is not easy! Pretty locket and interesting info to go with it.

[Lyn Todd]

@northy @ruthmouch You are so right about the lighting! I spent over an hour shooting a silver tea set & gave up because the reflections of the room in the teapot were too hard to control. Every 'shiney thing' I have photographed for this challenge has had totally different lighting needs! Even so, I have had a ball with this challenge, and learnt a lot along the way!

[aurorajane]

That is a lovely piece :)

[AutomaticSlim]

Superb work; I've had plenty of fun and games trying to do this sort of thing and it's not at all easy with a black background.